Theism: Being the Baird Lecture for 1876 |
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... principle of authority with the principle of liberty , due respect to the collective reason in history with due respect to the rights of the indi- vidual reason . The man who has not humility enough to feel that he is but one among the ...
... principle of authority with the principle of liberty , due respect to the collective reason in history with due respect to the rights of the indi- vidual reason . The man who has not humility enough to feel that he is but one among the ...
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... principle of Hindu pantheism that the Hindu people worship . The Sankhya and Ve- danta systems are no more religions than the systems of Spinoza , Schelling , or Hegel . They are merely philosophies . Buddhism has laid hold of the ...
... principle of Hindu pantheism that the Hindu people worship . The Sankhya and Ve- danta systems are no more religions than the systems of Spinoza , Schelling , or Hegel . They are merely philosophies . Buddhism has laid hold of the ...
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... principle of religious communion and the strongest motive to moral action . The theism of the Old Testament is incompar- ably superior to that of the Koran . It possesses every truth contained in Mohammedanism , while it gives due ...
... principle of religious communion and the strongest motive to moral action . The theism of the Old Testament is incompar- ably superior to that of the Koran . It possesses every truth contained in Mohammedanism , while it gives due ...
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... principle of Christian theism ; whenever it refutes an error regarding Him , it finds itself assailing some one of the many enemies of Christian theism . III . Theism , I argued in the last lecture , can never be reasonably rejected in ...
... principle of Christian theism ; whenever it refutes an error regarding Him , it finds itself assailing some one of the many enemies of Christian theism . III . Theism , I argued in the last lecture , can never be reasonably rejected in ...
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... principles involved in our reasonings . Our reasonings are worth nothing except in so far as they are expositions of God's modes of manifestation ; and even when our rea- 1 Ulrici , Gott und die Natur , i . - sonings are correct , our ...
... principles involved in our reasonings . Our reasonings are worth nothing except in so far as they are expositions of God's modes of manifestation ; and even when our rea- 1 Ulrici , Gott und die Natur , i . - sonings are correct , our ...
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